Sharon Olds Quotes

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• The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
• The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this…
• The older I get, the more I feel
• She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
• So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
• When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the…
• Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an…
• Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote…
• Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and…
• At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
• I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
• I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
• I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I…
• I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
• I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front…
• I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.
• If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used…
• The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.
• It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.
• My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only…

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